THE FRANKENKIT - Blending GGD libraries with Misha Mansoor

In this video, Misha shows you how he stacks multiple libraries in Kontakt to create a custom kit that has a unique character that you can tweak with almost limitless possibilities!
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[@AP02112]

GGD needs it's own interface, similar to SSD or Superior. That way you can make these frankenkit's through drag and dropping samples, also avoiding the horrendous Kontakt.

[@No-sr5fb]

GGD doing that interface idea and ditching Kontakt completely would be amazing

[@aleksas.3143]

Agreed, definitely would be nice to see that

[@crummockiphail9720]

I've started to like Kontakt after using it for a while. It's like Steam, except for my plugins. Got a bunch of libraries all in one spot. Got the routing down, so it's not a big deal. I know talking to a lot of people, when they say they don't like Kontakt, what they really mean is that they don't want to pay for Kontakt. Concerning GGD though, you can still use it with the free version of Kontakt.

[@aleksas.3143]

@@crummockiphail9720 I think its mostly got to do with the performance and optimisation, maybe im wrong but kontakt always seemed to me to be much more unstable and heavy on the pc resources than other software virtual instruments that i tried which have their own interface and engine, at least from my experience, and for ease of use i have always preferred a vsti with its own interface, it just feels like a less of a hassle.

[@eliaskapravelos7171]

The interface isn't that terrible, but Native's support is garbage, does it even run on the new M1 Macs ? Superior does run through rosetta flawlessly from what I've seen.

[@MixReady]

Me: I will try this! My CPU: Nope.

[@aniketthyagarajan8475]

Yes Misha, we're all friends.

[@XiyuYang]

Quick tip: the Guru zebrawood snare in M&M blends with the VP signature snare in the Invasion perfectly, identical pitch (C), same live room, same resonance. Give it a go.

[@DLCoker666]

Ayyy i gotta try that

[@No-sr5fb]

Meanwhile at GGD HQ: "Hmm how can we get our fans to make sure to buy all of our libraries?" Misha: "Hold my jackson."

[@porterrico8788]

* "hold my johnson"

[@mariorubio6829]

That's where the trouble begin, that smile, that damned smile

[@Pericles777]

I did this out of necessity after buying a second GGD kit. Modern And Massive REALLY helps with some of the more dynamic parts of songs when using invasion By far the best software drums IMO

[@DodInTheSky]

Blending Misha Mansoor with GGD libraries?

[@stefanmccabe4705]

YES FOR SOLO ALBUM TRACK! Loved that when you demoed back when!

[@m.e3753]

Misha you are something else, holy s..t you're great in what you do

[@m3m3sis]

What a dope timing on this one, hasn't been a week since I started to think if my PC could have the horsepower to do this but it seems a lot easier than I initially thought.

[@WesSlauson]

Awesome video, I've been doing this for the last year or so and it's been giving me great results

[@jacobsmith1877]

I would love to see you guys update the original Halpern library with a new interface to match your later kits' GUI quality.

[@joskun]

Thanks for this video, Misha. started to get into programming drums and this shows a great way to vary. I usually put Ulrich style beat under my tracks, so I have no excuses now lol

[@Jimmy_Z]

I'm definitely doing this ASAP. I have my Modern Metal Ezdrummer Kit routed to trigger Invasion so I can use the song creator in Ezdrummer. Now I'm gonna add a frankenkit

[@gingerleyham]

I was literally planning on making a dream kit mixing Invasion and M+M then this popped up on my suggested!

[@tomwaller2303]

Ive just started doing this recently, blending M&M with Invasion, getting great results. Just make sure that you check the phase between the different kits for each element that u are blending

[@miesenbachofficial7413]

Thanks Misha! That'll save a lot of CPU RAM, since I always worked with two separate VST tracks.

[@DjentZilla]

Very awesome, thank you for this

[@DLCoker666]

The VK copper is an underrated snare. That shit slaps

[@thedutchdjentleman]

Copper snares in general are underrated

[@ctsaustin]

I use the VK in my mix and love it to death

[@DLCoker666]

@@ctsaustin the perfect balance i think

[@mexicanmaggot666]

Yes!!! That song is super killer!!!

[@XiyuYang]

Another favorite thing I do is stacking kicks in the same library. I use two instances of the same library, flip the L/R of kick in the OH in one instance, keep the kick OH level identical, now the kick in the OH is right down the middle instead of tilting to the right. This isn’t useful by any means but feels so nice for my OCD

[@wasdroger_]

I was actually wondering if this was possible, super sick to see a video about it now, definitely gonna try it out

[@gorf101]

Your jst plugin is a giant RIP OFF and to get your settings you have to join some stupid club so you're literally buying a guitar plugin Not a Misha Mansoor plugin !! JST ARE SCAMMING ASSHOLES AND IF YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS WAY THEYRE SCREWING PEOPLE OUT OF MORE MONEY THEN YOURE JUST AS BAD AND SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF!

[@wasdroger_]

@@gorf101 are you talking about the toneforge plugin???

[@Calamitous]

@@gorf101 You doing okay?

[@MrDeathmagnetic08]

I am so happy to hear the Toneforge demo make it in the solo album. So stoked!

[@EthanRom]

I’ve been doing this recently and I’m glad to know that I’m not crazy for doing it so

[@VMac3]

HEADS UP EVERYONE: Be wary you'll need a very good spec PC/Mac to do this sort of thing as there will be a tonne of samples to load in and to run each of the interfaces. I currently run a Macbook Pro 16" with a 6-core 2.6 i7 and 32GB RAM and I have seen my Logic Pro X struggle in places with this technique even when using the maximum bus setting in the Logic Pro X preferences, so o hopefully everyone will understand this before using this technique. If you've got enough horsepower however then definitely do it, all my songs have layered snares and kicks and when Misha first showed this technique on his livestream I jumped on it and it was a complete game changer - Legendary stuff over here with the GGD crew!!

[@MrDjfacepunch]

One way to mitigate, if the extra processing is giving grief in a full mix - program all your hits on a single kit so you have the songwriting aspect sorted. Make your Frankenkit in its own session without any additional processing/instruments so it gets the full brunt of your available processing, and then bounce everything down to wav stems and bring them back into your main mix.

[@VMac3]

@@MrDjfacepunch this is legit advice - thank you very much for this insight J.D, legend!

[@MrDjfacepunch]

@@VMac3 no worries mate, anything to make the process easier! :)

[@XiyuYang]

Or you could write with one kit, bounce everything to audio, and then use the TCI files to trigger layered kicks/snares/rooms/whatnot...

[@Joey.Darkwoods-Studio]

Gaddamn that sounds huge!

[@LosAngeles234]

I paid for all libraries, I will use all libraries!

[@ryken_]

Thnx U Mansha Mishoor

[@jaredesker7348]

Hey misha, any insight into when kontact will be available on the new apple macbook hardware?

[@dubh_glas95]

I love how the communities that follow Misha are all memeing. You guys are great but give the poor man a second the breathe 😂

[@adamburger858]

Thanks Misha... I've been blending kits for a few years now, but I didn't know u could do this? lol -man I've gotta up my game with Kontakt?...certain things confuse the hell out of me! ..heh Ever try blending with Addictive Drums? I get some cool results on occasion?

[@veridianmusic2084]

The zoom at 1:54 was the best.

[@chrisbedan]

Brilliant!! =DDDD

[@the1111machi]

YASSSS FINALY

[@songbirdfree1]

Nice, thank you! How you combine room chanel of different libraries?

[@DodInTheSky]

Send them to the same output in Kontakt I guess.

[@Axegrinder90]

Also 10/10 gonna try this

[@danielzonjee]

But will this also mean that if you're using multiple libraries in conjunction with each other, that the room (near and far) samples will also be combined? So let's say I want to use multiple snare sounds from different libraries, can I route them to just one room fader? If I like the room in the halpern more, that I can route a snare from invasion into that room without the rooms combined?

[@raul-valentinapostu1144]

I get that you can use samples from multiple kits at the same time, but can you link them to the same room sound track? Or even the same overhead track? Like for example if I use cymbals and the kick from the invasion kit and a snare from m&m is it possible to route it on the same room track as if they were in the same room?

[@TheRealFoxeR]

If you route them correctly, yes. You have to route all of the overhead tracks to the same output, all of the rooms to another, etc.

[@raul-valentinapostu1144]

@@TheRealFoxeR oh, I see Thanks for the reply then, I'll try and see what I can do

[@DerrickSchneider]

12:40 LMAO 🤣 Misha

[@HoaPierre]

I knew this song wasn't finished shiit I want to listen to it

[@djdanger9812]

Only problem I see combining snare drums is each snare sound has it own fundamental ring that most of us notch out. Each snare has its own annoying ringing sound in a different frequency independent to the other snares layered. So if you send all the snares to a single output in Kontakt they are all now combined making notching that frequency out of each individual snare impossible without notching the other combined snares in the same area that don't need it. If I send all the snares out on different channels in Kontakt to individual channels in logic, then notch them all in the different "problem areas", and bus them together. Will there be phase issues with different eq settings on each channel before they are summed together on a bus?? Old video I know but hopefully someone could help out?

[@gabriel_facedown]

are you able to bypass the Overheads output on the invasion cymbals? Like would I be able to mix an individual cymbal by themselves within the multiout of kontakt or would I have to bounce the cymbals to audio?

[@CMDRUMS76]

Question, do I need the full version of Kontakt to do this or can I get by with just the player?

[@LaurenceSouthDrumsUK]

Anyone know how to do this in Cakewalk?

[@edwardbernays838]

yes

[@DEM94]

Parabolica!

[@jakedavis4828]

Can I do this with mixwave mario duplantier drum sim and ggd invasion drum kit.

[@attila1813]

Another trick is to use 2 kontakts and flip the stereo image of the other, so you can have for example ride on both sides of the kit, a floor tom on the left and an x-hat with any kit and not just invasion.

[@TheZPKiller]

I know this video is kinda old but does this work for Live edrums? or just to program in the MIDI Mapping manually?

[@johnsilver4990]

I'm stacking Invasion's cymbals with P4's shells for my bands first record!

[@joeljohnsson]

hells yes is you are doing that

[@johnsilver4990]

@@joeljohnsson actual moment in reality

[@bradhargis2261]

Hey Misha how bout that redbull finish at Abu Dhabi last week?!

[@KasbashPlays]

1:23 - We are? WE ARE!!

[@spool29k97]

Strong thumbnail

[@francis3623]

I have updated to kontakt 7 and ever since I could not use 2 or more kits. Drag and drop doesnt work. Pls help

[@salahbaker4089]

My template has free SSD5 and MT Power Drum Kit 2 in same general way

[@ATOWofficial]

HOW TO BUY ALL LIBRARIES!

[@XiyuYang]

Also, always check phase coherency. Kicks in M&M are NOT phase aligned with the rest of GGD kits, so flip the phase if you use M&M kicks, better yet, use a phase alignment plugin

[@rohanahlawat5809]

actually the antiphase kick smaples give it a very "focussed tone" if you know what i mean. Really scooped and can sound great with a bit of work.

[@XiyuYang]

@@rohanahlawat5809 I know what you mean but this isn’t the case. In this case you lose pretty much all low frequencies.

[@josuastangl7140]

@@rohanahlawat5809 Nolly did a video on out of phase kick processing, but he did it to scoope out midrange with a different microphone on the same kick. Idk how that would sound with 2 different kickdrums. Never tried it, but you'd have to go about it with a plan of what frequencies you'd want to cancell out. I could imagine just loosing all low end with 2 regular already good sounding kickdrums.

[@megatronsass999]

I started doing this a couple of days ago, Me and my drummer like invasion but I found it hard to get the snare to sound really fat so I decided to have the invasion kit with an invasion and modern and massive snare and now it sounds great!

[@lydiadmoore20]

1- yall are epic sauce unobtainable in a bottle 2- I can not find your song "even" and my little heart aches for it. where might I find it since I can not on here

[@TheRealFoxeR]

*Raises hand* Hey, Misha/the rest of the GGD crew. I know this is a small thing, but can we get a fully-sampled right hi-hat? For a Travis Orbin-esque cymbal setup. It's odd to pan the second hat to the right, only for the overheads and room to treat it as if it was still on the left.

[@MishaMansoor]

You could always load an instance of a kit with a hi hat you like, disable everything else, and then flip the stereo outs so it's panned to the right!

[@TheRealFoxeR]

@@MishaMansoor That wouldn't cause phase issues if I use another instance of the same kit?

[@XiyuYang]

@@TheRealFoxeR It wouldn't.

[@MishaMansoor]

@@TheRealFoxeR if you are using it for a high hat in a different location it absolutely would not!

[@TylerHNothing]

Didn’t expect to see Misha in greenface

[@Manas_Kunder_]

So when's the P5 kit coming out?

[@kenanatkinson7335]

Better question... when does PV come out?

[@Manas_Kunder_]

@@kenanatkinson7335 yaa you're right ;)

[@oco2203]

Does this work with the One Kit Wonders as well? I loaded up Aggressive Rock and Modern Fusion in the same Kontakt, routed it so they don't overlap each other but seems like only one kit works. Does anyone have a solution to this??

[@TheRealFoxeR]

Click the "i" thing and click "omni" like Misha says at 11:49.

[@oco2203]

@@TheRealFoxeR Thanks!

[@benjaminmichaut9996]

So this kit is like onions.

[@smash_adams]

I wish I had the cpu power to do this

[@nonames8335]

The thumbnail scary me 🤣

[@mybiggrin]

My computer would die haha

[@anshumansai8806]

Frankensoor

[@DLCoker666]

The best part was when that delayed part would rudely interrupt misha

[@heardlessmusic]

Ah yes the lead is not burried in the mix...

[@luanventura6569]

I wonder how much free time misha has...

[@josuastangl7140]

this is his job

[@ollyevee]

If we are all friends, that means I can come by your house and try every single guitar and every synth possible?

[@Axegrinder90]

Why are you calling it your solo album? Isn’t it just another bulb album?

[@emmashmusic]

FIRST

[@papakefis4252]

Sorry but this GGD layering ,recommends a tone of processing power from the Mac or PC what have you. So for the most of us is useless. My humble opinion. Cheers.

[@thefuse03101]

You don't need that much. I have an i7 with 32gb ram and I stack 2 kits in kontakt, plus superior drummer. Everything runs fine with those specs. If you're only using 16gb of ram, that's considered bare minimum now a days for a descent computer in the audio/video world

[@adownbeatexegete1549]

Yo. Ditch Kontakt and make your own guys' GGD Player.

[@robbielitchfield9838]

It's time to ditch Kontakt and create your own instrument plugin like SD3

[@mylesclayborne6534]

Any thoughts into why after mapping everything I can still only hear one kit? I've got M&M layered with Invasion but It's still only triggering the M&M kit.

[@beastlybeast2716]

You might not have it set to Omni. Look for an “i” button on the interface of kontakt and you should see an option that’ll let you switch to Omni.

[@chrismusicx]

@@beastlybeast2716 Dude you're a lifesaver! And thanks Myles for asking lol

[@beastlybeast2716]

@@chrismusicx glad to hear it helped hahaha. Once your used to kontakt it’s whatever but getting used to it is a PAIN

[@chrismusicx]

@@beastlybeast2716 Man it really is! Now certain pieces of the kit ill map and it will work properly and other ill map and wont trigger! no idea why

[@chrismusicx]

like ill map the kick to C-1 and it will work and then ill clear the map and assign kick to C-1 again and it wont work. at a loss